Recent Publications - Dr. Michael Childs
Dr. Micheal Childs
Department of History
Review of Marc Brodie. The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885-1914. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004, on H-Albion@h-net.msu.edu (July 2005)
Review of J. Rose, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000, in Canadian Journal of History, vol. 38, April 2003
Review of A. Thorpe, A History of the British Labour Party, New York: St. Martin=s Press, 1997, in Albion, vol. 30, 2, Summer 1998
"Labor History," D. Wolff, ed., A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, New York: Garland Press, 1998
"Labour Grows Up: The Electoral System, Political Generations and British Politics 1890-1929", Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1995, 123-144.
"English Marriage Laws and Customs", Connections, Vol. 16, No. 4, June 1994, pp. 8-15
"Selling the Empire", [Review essay], Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 3, No. 1, January, 1994
M.J. Childs, L.-G. Harvey and A. Stritch, eds., Journal of History and Politics/Revue d'Histoire et de Politique, Vol. X: "The Evolution of Socialism/L'Évolution du Socialisme", 1992; Vol. XI: "Nationalism, the State and Trade", 1993-94
Labour's Apprentices: Working Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press/ London: Hambledon Press, 1992. Paperback edition, 1994.
- Selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books List, 1993
- Listed in The Reader=s Advisor (14th Ed.), Vol. 3: Best in Social Sciences, History and the Arts, p. 363, under section for British History, Victorian Period

